Malcolm Gladwell is famous for popularizing the idea that it takes 10,000 hours to master any subject. By my last count, I’ve never dedicated 10,000 hours to anything in my life, not even photography (although getting closer and closer, but shhh, don’t tell anyone), so the idea of being a true master of anything as I imagine it, still feels a little foreign to me.
In my mind, once that level of mastery is reached, problems are no longer problems, but merely solutions waiting to be found, as the mastery is what makes them evident or at the very least, easier to find a solution to a problem.
Larnell Lewis (a native Torontonian) has been playing drums since the age of 2, so there is no question that he is a true master of the discipline. This video is the perfect visualisation of what mastery looks like. Seeing him listening to “Enter Sandman” by Metallica for the first time and then proceeding to replicate it nearly flawlessly is a sight to behold.